Recruiting and Selecting CHWs: Strategies for Success
This is the eighth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide, produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. This chapter focuses on what might seem like a simple step in CHW program construction: the…
Defining Appropriate CHW Roles and Responsibilities
This is the seventh chapter of the CHW Reference Guide, produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. Chapter 7 of the CHW Reference Guide describes CHW roles and tasks, and focuses on key points in…
Coordination & Partnerships for CHW Initiatives
The complex and diverse challenges of CHW initiatives that emerge in a number of countries are invariably beyond the power of a single actor to address and require coordination and collaboration among different players and actors at all levels. (Muhammad Mahmood Afzal and Henry Perry) This is the sixth chapter of…
Strategies for costing, implementing, and sustaining CHW programs: An in-depth look at financing
This is the fifth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide, produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. The relevance of community health worker (CHW) programs withstands the test of time, as current…
Empowering Clients through Listening: The Impact of Penn Center CHWs
Today the Penn Center for Community Health Workers (CHWs) has a staff of 40 employees that are fully supported by the Penn Medicine Health System. Most employees are CHWs and collectively they provide support to 1,500 vulnerable, high-risk patients in West and Southwest Philadelphia. But five years ago the Center…
